Ada Montellanico
(Roma 5 Gennaio 1959), cantante, compositrice, arrangiatrice, autrice di testi. Collabora con Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava, Massimo Urbani, Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Gary Bartz, Danilo Rea. Si esibisce al Festival Umbria jazz, all’ Auditorium di Roma, al Festival Jazz di Montreal in Canada, al Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma. Nel 1996 ha registrato il Cd “L'altro Tenco” e nel 1997 "Ma l'amore no". Ha collaborato con il quartetto di sassofoni “Ialsax” di Gianni Oddi, con il “Kammerton Vocal Ensemble” e con il “Blue Note Ensemble”. Ha vinto il premio “Montefortino '99” quale miglior interprete.Il suo ultimo Cd “Il sole di un attimo”, ha offerto un’altra immagine dell’artista ed è stata scelta per la serie “Jazz Italiano 2008” dalla rivista L’Espresso, con un’inedita incisione “live” del suo ultimo progetto dedicato a Billie Holiday. Tra i suoi lavori: “The encounter” (1993), “Your skin” (2001), “Mi guardi intorno” (2001), “Ti sognerò comunque” (2003), “Da quando” (2005), “Blue Tenco” (2006), “Il sole di un attimo” (2007), “L'alba di un incontro” (2007), “It's all over now” (2007), “Only sound” (2007), “Trepido sguardo” (2009).
Adela Martín
Was born in Zaragoza in 1963, she began to study piano at the age of six. She trained at the Zaragoza Conservatory, later perfected her studies in Barcelona with Nati Cubells and with Eulalia Solé at the Badalona Music Conservatory. As a solo performer she gave his first recital at the age of 14. She has performed concerts and recordings for radio and television in various countries. She is currently teaching at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona, activity that combines with her performances in Spain and abroad. One of the her interests is spread Spanish composers music, especially in the twentieth century.
Adela Martín Colera
(born on 26th April 1963 in Pamplona, Spain). Composer, pianist, teacher. She studied at the Conservatory of Music in Zaragoza and later studied with Nati Cubells in Barcelona and Eulalia Solé at the Conservatory of Music in Badalona. As a pianist she was especially interested in the diffusion of contemporany Spanish composers. She has performed concerts and recordings for radio and television in various countries. As a composer she composed the music for the movie "Trágala perro", which was presented at the International Film Festival San Sebastian in 1981. Currently she is Professor at the Conservatory "Joaquín Maya" of Pamplona, an activity combined with her performances in Spain and abroad.
Selected works: A Ernesto Halffter, pf; A Jorge Oteiza (Alba), pf; Homenaje a Joaquín Rodrigo (1. Hacia la luz), pf; Homenaje a Pilar Bayona, pf; Lluvia en el recreo, pf; Metamorfosis, pf; Obaba: A Montxo Armendáriz, pf; Trágala perro, 1981, pf.
